Officials are saying they got lucky after an accident at the Richfield City Pool on Friday. A 53-year-old man left the pool after feeling sick. He and his son got into their car, when he got dizzy. According to Richfield City Police Chief Trent Lloyd, his car traveled eastbound through a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah and U.S. government officials will launch a study this month to determine the extent of mining pollution in Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border. The Deseret News reports this week that heavy metals washed into Lake Powell over the decades by flash flooding will be dug […]
A former Fayette Town clerk who pleaded guilty to misuse of public money was sentenced in Sixth District Court in Manti on Wednesday. Tracy Kay Mellor pleaded guilty in October to three 3rd degree felonies after an investigation revealed she had been writing Town checks to a personal business account […]
The Norbest turkey plant in Moroni is donating 100 live turkeys to Direct Action Everywhere, the animal rights group whose members have been charged with entering a turkey growing shed and stealing a baby turkey. DxE has been in contact with Pitman Family Farms, the new owners of the Moroni […]
A new judge has been assigned to the case of a man accused of killing a young couple last year and dumping their bodies down an abandoned mine shaft outside of Eureka. Attorneys for Jerrod Baum showed that the prior judge had bias and a conflict of interest in the […]
Sanpete County is now the sixth county in Utah to take drugmakers and distributors to court over the toll of the opioid epidemic. In their court filing, the Sanpete County Attorney’s Office accuses pharmaceutical companies of misleading residents by using a “publicity machine” to convince them opioids were safe and posed little […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers want to get a valuation of federal lands in the state so they can deliver a bill to the U.S government to show how much revenue the lands could generate if they were privately owned. The Legislative Management Committee is meeting Tuesday to […]
Joseph Town officials now say the water supply is safe from E. coli. A boil order was issued in the town on Wednesday. Officials say samples have now come back clean and the order was lifted Saturday.
BEAVER, Utah (AP) — Principal Brad Harris, half-apologizing, notes the sign on the wall that declares Belknap Elementary School as a Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education. “The U.S. Department of Education hasn’t sent us our signs yet so we made our own,” Harris said. Give Harris […]
Officials are warning residents of Joseph Town in Sevier County to a danger in the Town’s water supply. A boil order is in place until further notice. Officials will know more on Saturday, according to Mike Grimlie from the Central Utah Public Health Department. Grimlie says the water tested positive […]
